INTRODUCTION|The United States Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) in an attempt to remedy sentencing disparities within the federal court system. The SRA created the United States Sentencing Commission, ...

INTRODUCTION|Originally, the custody and care of the mentally ill was considered to be a part of the King's executive power as parens patriae. In the United States, control of the mentally ill is a power reserved to state ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|This month marks my seventh year as Director of the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, known as NJEP. The purpose of this program, which began in ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|The United States Constitution created a federal government with limited, enumerated powers and powers implicitly necessary to those specifically enumerated. In the founding era, the President, Congress, ...

INTRODUCTION|The completion of the Human Genome Project has electrified the scientific world. What once was possible only in the domain of the science fiction thriller has reached real world possibility. We stand at the ...

INTRODUCTION|The Human Genome Project ("HGP") is a federally funded program established for the purpose of mapping and sequencing all human genes. The dramatic genetic advances resulting from the HGP have given rise to ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Long after the rape chapter was over, when we had moved on to inchoate crimes and cases involving "call girls" and conniving defendants who took messages for them in an era before voicemail-protagonists ...

INTRODUCTION|In Giger v. City of Omaha, the Nebraska Supreme Court returned to its seminal decision in Bucholz v. City of Omaha, which had approved conditional zoning, and gave Bucholz the broadest possible reading in order ...

FIRST PARAGARPH(S)|Not all courts in Iraq are dependent on judicial authority, yet all courts are regulated by a law. Therefore, it is important to give an introduction on the judiciary authority in Iraq before explaining ...

INTRODUCTION|In efforts to pump renewed vigor into a deflated industry, world automobile manufacturers have found one way to absorb the shock of recent travels over bumpy roads. In the past five years, auto manufacturers ...

INTRODUCTION|A primary goal of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 was to promote greater and more widespread use of debt reorganization under Chapter 13 as an alternative to asset liquidation under 11 U.S.C. §§ 701-728 ...

INTRODUCTION|Can a religious-based club meet after school on school premises for the purpose of prayer, religious songs, scripture reading and religious instruction on moral issues? Can a school exclude such religious clubs ...

INTRODUCTION|"For 40 years there has been great uncertainty as to what constitutes a private offering." - Former S.E.C. Chairman William J. Casey (1972). When the Securities Act of 1933 was adopted by Congress, it contained ...

INTRODUCTION|I would like to talk today about the good work that is being done by the governments of our country: by local officials here in Omaha, by your state officials in Lincoln, and by federal officials throughout ...

INTRODUCTION|The fourth amendment to the United States Constitution developed as a response to the needs of colonists previously subjected to general warrants. These warrants, known as writs of assistance, allowed British ...

INTRODUCTION|Five years ago, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was fervently debated and unveiled to the public with more pomp and circumstance than most legislation in recent years. The Act was initially touted to be both an ...

INTRODUCTION|In an age in which many, if not most, commentators have come to criticize the utility and practice of the grand jury system of indicting people for criminal conduct, Nebraska has reexamined its century-old ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|On this fiftieth anniversary of the Great Plains Federal Tax Institute, I would like to discuss some important changes that have occurred in our federal tax system during my career, which is approaching ...

INTRODUCTION|In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. the United States Supreme Court cleared up the issue of whether oral complaints, in addition to written complaints, were protected under the anti-retaliation ...